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281. Heinrich Stern collection
1995.A.0363 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0363
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1986
bulk: 1909-1944
… forced to close his business, he later turned to work in a factory as a bookkeeper. During the Kristallnacht, Heinrich along with 50 other Jews from…
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 … primarily immigration documents related to Heinrich and Charlotte Stern. Heinrich was a lawyer who was arrested on Kristallnacht and sent to Buchenwald. He…
282. Cohn, Heinemann, and Rhée families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.210.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2016
…, 1926-2000). In 1933, Hans immigrated to England and Robert went to the Netherlands. Shortly after Kristallnacht, Eva and her parents went to England with…
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 … Lüneburg in 2015 for objects acquired by the museum after Marcus’s assets were seized after Kristallnacht. Included are biographical materials, immigration…
283. Ruth Loewenstein papers
2017.613.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.613.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1963
… called JKA. Willy was arrested on November 10, 1938 during Kristallnacht, imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp, and released in December 1938 on…
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 … imprisonment in Dachau following Kristallnacht, the family’s flight to England, their immigration to the United States, and their embroidered handkerchief…
284. Max Reiner papers
2015.299.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 109
Document | Accession Number: 2015.299.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1944
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… retirement. He sought work in Vienna, Prague, and Tel Aviv unsuccessfully, returning to Berlin. After Kristallnacht, however, he resolved to leave, and in…
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 … Tel Aviv unsuccessfully, returning to Berlin. After Kristallnacht, however, he resolved to leave, and in January 1939 left for Palestine, where he…
285. Heinz Praeger papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0187.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-2018
bulk: 1939-1947
… Kristallnacht and sent to Dachau, where Mr. Oppenheimer died. Karl Heinz was released at the end of January 1939 after his parents paid for his release and…
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 … 1938. The Jewish men of Kitzingen, including Karl Heinz and the Oppenheimers, were arrested on Kristallnacht and sent to Dachau, where Mr. Oppenheimer…
286. Alfred and Ellen Lewis papers
1995.A.0250 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0250
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-circa 1959
…Ellen Katz (1923 - ) was born to Martin and Edith Katz in Berlin, Germany. She was a student at the time of the Kristallnacht, when her parents…
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 … document the journey of Alfred Lewy and Ellen Katz, two German Jews who immigrated with their families to Shanghai, China soon after the Kristallnacht…
287. Henry and Grete Salomon collection
1995.A.0370 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0370
Date:
inclusive: 1928-1961
bulk: 1936-1948
… Kristallnacht occurred and the town began to slowly turn against them. During a raid in 1939, Henry was rounded up along with other Jews in the town, to be sent…
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 … operated a butcher store, until the Kristallnacht occurred and the town began to slowly turn against them. In a roundup in 1939, Henry was rounded up along…
288. Jim Robinson papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.162.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1943
bulk: 1941-1942
…: Fichte Bund Association 1935. English Cartoon: Punch 1938. Nazi Oppression & Suppression [Kristallnacht] Advertisement: Boy Scouts of America…
289. Oral history interview with Martin Leiser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.159.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0919
Date:
interview: 2017 February 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… merchant and money lender; his father dying in 1937 as a result of wounds from World War I; Jewish-owned stores being smashed and looted during Kristallnacht…
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 …] you understand-- over everything. We heard a lot of noise. And they started to go around, and they started-- it must have been Kristallnacht because the…
290. Oral history interview with Herbert Stern
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.206.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0935
Date:
interview: 2017 May 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… thrown at him on his way home from Jewish Day School; his family being Observant; his grandparents’ hotel being destroyed during Kristallnacht; his father…
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 …:36:30,130 --> 00:36:34,120 At the time of Kristallnacht, the hotel 782 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:39,490 Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…
291. Oral history interview with Jenny Brody
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.394.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0842
Date:
interview: 2015 October 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her schooling and experiencing discrimination; her fear during Kristallnacht and seeing people being beaten in the streets; the deportation of her three…
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 …, though it was not clear whether by fellow pupils or by the teachers. Jenny remembers her terrible fear during Kristallnacht. She remembers seeing people…
292. Oral history interview with Audrey Doughty
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.70 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0070
Date:
interview: 1992 July 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the University of Berlin; being in Berlin during Kristallnacht and taking photos afterward; writing a journal entry describing that night; having little…
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 … University to study at the University of Berlin, where she learned passable German. Audrey was in Berlin during Kristallnacht and took photos afterward. She…
293. Oral history interview with Harry Alexander
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.4 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0004
Date:
interview: 1992 February 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Harry Alexander discusses his memories of persecutions suffered by Jews in his hometown of Leipzig, Germany, and the events of Kristallnacht in 1938…
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 … came uh, uh what you call Kristallnacht, the 8th to the 9th of November, 1938. That was when the storm troopers uh stormed your house, destroyed your…
294. Oral history interview with Kurt Roberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.33 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0141
Date:
interview: 2001 March 16
interview: 2020 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Victor Roberg’s profession as a merchant for the firm Gebrüder Freidberg; his family’s religious practices; Kristallnacht; antisemitism in his hometown…
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 … brother Hans went to Holland 1937 - Family store closed, mother applied for visas to US. November 1938 - Kristallnacht - father taken to Oranienburg camp…
295. Oral history interview with Walter Wertheim
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.37.24 | RG Number: RG-50.765.0024
Date:
interview: 2006 March 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the time of Kristallnacht; being prevented from attending school; going to Cologne, Germany temporarily and returning home; how his father organized…
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 … Holocaust Survivor • Born in Mönchengladbach, Germany, in 1925 • Expelled from school at age 13 because he was a Jew • Witnessed Kristallnacht at the age of…
296. Oral history interview with Hella Weiss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1286 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1286
Date:
interview: 1991 April 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hella Weiss (née Heilbronn), born on October 29, 1934, discusses her childhood in Lengerich, Germany; her memories of Kristallnacht; her trip to…
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 … CAN REMEMBER OF ANY GROWING FEAR ON THE PART OF YOUR FAMILY ABOUT THE POLITICS At the crystal -- what do you call it -- KRISTALLNACHT. -- Kristallnacht…
297. Oral history interview with Arnold Benjamin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.596 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0596
Date:
interview: 2002 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…'s life in Berlin, Germany; his father going into hiding during Kristallnacht in November 1938 and avoiding arrest by the Nazi officers who arrived at the…
298. Oral history interview with Wolfgang Homburger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.768 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0768
Date:
interview: 1990 November 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… under the Nazi regime; his memories of the events of Kristallnacht in November 1938; his father's decision to send him and his two brothers to England…
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 … thing already. As things progressed toward Kristallnacht, I think the tensions increased. I remember that on the commercial street that was about four…
299. Oral history interview with Ellen Stern
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.740 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0740
Date:
interview: 1990 June 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…'s decision to leave for Shanghai, China following Kristallnacht in November 1938; the journey by ship and the conditions she encountered upon their arrival in…
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 … happen, and it would be a passing. That changed thirity-- the Kristallnacht November '38 brought on this change. My father was hidden by a Gentile lawyer…
300. Oral history interview with Elisabeth Katz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.200 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0200
Date:
interview: 1994 August 04
interview: 
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kristallnacht in November 1938, including the arrest of her father; immigrating to London in late 1938 to work in a hospital; being interned as an enemy alien…